Welcome autumn with new art books!

Finally the heat of summer has abated... a perfect time to visit the Fine Arts Room in beautiful Central Library.  Here are some of our most recent acquisitions.  Enjoy!

Reference
Frank Stella Prints; A Catalogue Raisonné
Roland Paris: The Art Deco Jester King  by Alberto Shayo
Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money, Vol. 7, South Atlantic

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color  by Marietta Cambareri
Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Exhibition Art; Graphics and Space Design
Graffiti Planet
Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny  by A. S. Byatt
The Spirit of Indian Painting  by B. N. Goswamy
Street Art

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

The English Castles Story  by Marc Alexander
Karl Friedrich Schinkel  by Martin Steffens

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Coffee Culture: Hot Coffee + Cool Spaces  by Robert Schneider
Eat and Stay: Restaurant Graphics & Interiors

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Award-Winning Basket Designs  by Pati English
Encaustic Art: Painting with Wax  by Michael Bossom
Lessons in Classical Painting  by Juliette Aristides

Antiques / Collectibles

The Della Robbia Pottery; from Renaissance to Regent Street
Mason Jar Nation: The Jars that Changed America  by JoAnn Moser

Latest visual art book acquisitions

Even though our book ordering year has ended (it will resume again in October, never fear), the wonderful titles we ordered recently are still coming in. They run the gamut from serious art  and architecture history tomes to fun craft books and collectibles guides.

C'mon by and take a look, or request that they be sent to your home branch!  

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Anselm Kiefer: The Woodcuts, exhibit catalog of The Albertina, Vienna

Art Cologne 1967-2016; The First Art Fair

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art  by Sebastian Smee

The Artist and his Critic Stripped Bare; The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp and Robert Level

Botticelli Reimagined, exhibit catalog of the Victoria & Albert Museum

The Brothers Le Nain; Painters of 17^th Century France, exhibit of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art

Tinguely, exhibit catalog of the Museum Kunstpalast, et al.

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Architecture at the End of the Earth; Photographing the Russian North  by Wm. Craft Brumfield

Architecture in Wood: A World History  by Will Pryce

Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough [The Buildings of England]  by Charles O’Brien/Nikolaus Pevsner

Buildings of Savannah  by Robin B. Williams, et al.

Garden Design Solutions  by Stephen Woodhams

Living Roofs  by Ashley Penn

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Inside Rio  by Lenny Niemeyer

Light Meal Restaurant: Dine-in Cultural Space  ed. by Brenda Heath

Show Posters: The Art and Practice of Making Gig Posters  by Pat Jones

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Pyrography: 18 Step-by-Step Projects to Make  by Bob Neill

Tapestry Crochet and More  by Maria Gullberg

Tie Dip Dye  by Pepa Martin

Antiques / Collectibles

Homestead Glass Works: Bryce, Higbee & Co.  by Paul Kirk

Warman’s Depression Glass: Identification and Price Guide, 6^th ed